Pirate Bay bloke wants to set up ICANN alternative

The bloke behind Pirate Bay wants to set up an alternative to the domain name outfit ICANN.

Peter Sunde says that he has been suspicious of ICANN for a long time. ICANN is the non-profit corporation is tasked with managing both the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Protocol address spaces as well as handling the management of top-level domain name space including the operation of root nameservers.

However Sunde said that he has lost a domain in the past and it was taken without any consultation. Instead the organisation relied on information from recording industry group IFPI to change the domain ownership.

He has put out a Tweet to create a competing root server - “Hello all #isp of the world. We’re going to add a new competing root-server since we’re tired of #ICANN. Please contact me to help.”

Sunde has a plan to create a DNS root server to begin with that uses peer-to-peer technology and is secure. While it will be quite basic, it will be open and secure.

Sunde might just be venting, but he has a habit of doing stuff. Pirate Bay was one such example.